# congelar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin congelāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kuɲ.ʒəˈla]
* IPA: (Balearic) [koɲ.ʒəˈla]
* IPA: (Valencia) [koɲ.d͡ʒeˈlaɾ]

### Verb

congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelí, past participle congelat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
* (transitive) to freeze

#### Derived terms

* anticongelant
* congelador
* congelament
* descongelar

#### Related terms

* congelació
* gelar

## Occitan
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin congelare.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)
* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Verb

congelar
* (transitive) to freeze

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Synonyms

* conglaçar

#### Related terms

* gelar

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin congēlāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.ʒeˈla(ʁ)/ [kõ.ʒeˈla(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.ʒeˈla(ʁ)/ [kõ.ʒeˈla(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõ.ʒeˈla(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõ.ʒeˈla(ʁ)/ [kõ.ʒeˈla(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõ.ʒeˈla(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.ʒɨˈlaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.ʒɨˈlaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kõ.ʒɨˈla.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: con‧ge‧lar

### Verb

congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelei, past participle congelado)
* (transitive, intransitive) to freeze
    Antonym: descongelar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:congelar.

#### Derived terms

* descongelar

#### Related terms

* congelação
* congelador
* gelar

### Further reading

* “congelar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “congelar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “congelar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “congelar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “congelar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin congelāre. Cognate with English congeal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konxeˈlaɾ/ [kõŋ.xeˈlaɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: con‧ge‧lar

### Verb

congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelé, past participle congelado)
* (transitive) to freeze (to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes)
    Synonym: helar
* (transitive) to freeze, to suspend (an activity, a program)
** 2019 April 22, León Krauze, “Dar la espalda al paisano”, in El Universal‎:Hace un par de semanas, el Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) removió de sus cargos a los representantes en Estados Unidos y congeló el programa de asistencia, al que piensa reestructurar próximamente.A couple of weeks ago, the National Migration Institute (NMI) removed representatives in the United States from their posts and froze the aid program, which it plans to restructure shortly.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* congelador
* congelamiento
* congelante
* descongelar

#### Related terms

* congelación
* helar

### Further reading

* “congelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10